Mischief Quotes - Page 7

• A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

  Saadi

  Mingling, Stirring, Falsehood

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• It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

  Aleister Crowley

  War, Hair, Sun

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• History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

  Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

  Government, Church, States

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• I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

  Anne Enright

  Character, Knowing Everything, Not Knowing

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Science, People

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hero, Race, Blood

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• We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

  Fisher Ames

  Heart, Soul, Liberty

  Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property and the happiness of society, considered, by an American [F. Ames], to which is prefixed, an introduction by H. Ewbank”, p.197

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• What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Doors, Giving

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• The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Giving, Want

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• Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

  Saadi

  Secret, Intelligence, Enemy

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• [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Wish, Meg

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.203, GENERAL PRESS

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• Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

  Anna Sewell

  Motivational, Ignorance, Mean

  Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

  Christopher Pike

  Believe, Way, Life Is

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Night, Hands, Names

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• The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

  John Green

  Mother, Smart, Worry

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Confusion, Sorcery

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.48, Bantam

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• Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Prayer, Long, Temptation

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• Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Ignorance, Reality

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• Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Clever, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

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• It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

  Pat Conroy

  Prayer, Dancing, Looks

  Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

  Peg Bracken

  Travel, Wonder, Belts

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

  Mo Rocca

  Self, Special, Important

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• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Paris

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Powerful, Thinking, Helping

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.146, Sentient Publications

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